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Gold Hawks Stay High and Dry |
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Written by Steve DeDoes for Toledo Hawks Baseball
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Friday, 24 June 2011 09:14 |
Score Thursday "W" After Tuesday Washout
Thursday, June 23, the Toledo Hawks "Gold" squad resumed action after encountering a massive downpour before their Tuesday night game. Against the Genoa Rampage at Bowman Park, Hawks bats rung up 11 early runs and a quartet of pitchers mellowed the Rampage in a 12-0, score-shortened 5-inning deluge. This onslaught took place after Mother Nature's power demonstration earlier in the week, when a game between both Toledo Hawks teams (Black and Gold) never got started due to a sudden and violent thunderstorm swooped into Toledo.
Hawk bats wasted no time in taking advantage of the break in the weather Thursday evening. Siena Heights teammates Cory Lehman (Rossford) and Brett Howard (Toledo) banged doubles off the leftfield wall, leading to two first-inning runs, and the rout was on. The Hawk attack was led by Mattie DeDoes (Oberlin/Ann Arbor, MI), who had two hits and three RBI's; Howard also added a second hit and had two RBI for the game, and Phill Dysard (Tiffin/Toledo) notched 2 RBI with his base hit. The Hawks tallied four more in the second and five more in the third inning, helped by numerous free passes from Genoa pitchers.
Brian Koehl (Heidelberg/Sylvania) led the mound corps to an overpowering shutout, with two innings of work that saw him notch four strikeouts. Three more Hawk hurlers pitched an inning apiece: lefty Connor Wendt (Tiffin/Curtice) struck out all three batters he faced in the third; Tyler Gibson (Bluffton/Sylvania) tossed a 1-2-3 fourth; and Lucas Willitzer (Adrian/Defiance) recorded three strikeouts to close out the fifth. The only Rampage hit occurred on a bunt single in the final inning.
With the win, Toledo "Gold" raises their Toledo League record to 4-0, with an overall record of 14-2.
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